Weekend Winding Down

What a peaceful reprieve this weekend was.  Jared lost his football game, but we shared breakfast with a old friend for his "28th" birthday.  I swallowed my pride and we welcomed a weekly visitor and  my family has a clean home for the week.  We labored and sweated in the backyard, but soon we will have a whole crop of cool weather veggies.  My big guys headed out to prepare the land for the upcoming deer season and Luke and I stayed behind and found the "floor" of our office.  It was tedious and tiring, but we are organized once more and have made plans to tackle our next mess.
Everything we did this weekend had purpose and payoff - and that feels so very good. 

I am still working on the cable plans...Gabriel is having a little trouble imagining life without cable.  I think we will have to start with some compromise, maybe a little more progress after football season.  I can already see so many changes with the squawk box just turned off.

New week ahead, going to be a super busy one!

Television, Schmellevision

Yesterday, before football practice, Jared took me outside to pick zucchini and water all the plant babies. Luke fought him for the hose and there were some wet practice pants last night and there are some hyper hydrated tomatoes today, but we smiled and laughed. When he and daddy left Lukers and I sauteed the Zucchini, threw in a little corn, topped it all with parmesan shavings and shared a plate, at the big table, in the tall chairs, covered in corn kernels after he decided to feed us both himself. Then we just went about our night, folding clothes, reading books, doing dishes. When Jared and Daddy got home I fed them too, we talked about all the guys Jared tackled, sent him off to brush his teeth, snuck him a cinnamon almond to completely deface his clean teeth and sent him off to bed. Gabriel and I sat up and discussed the potential, upcoming cutting of the cable cord and then went to bed. All this with only Classic Rock streaming in the background. It was one of the best nights I've had in a long, long time.